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Old November 12th 04, 02:30 AM
Don Phillipson
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"Peabody" wrote in message
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When I copy files from a CD to my hard drive, the read-only
attribute is set on all the files, presumably because the CD is a
read-only medium. I just wondered if there's any easy way to reset
that flag in the process of copying.


PowerDesk lets you select a whole directory
full of files, then alter File Attributes for all.

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Old November 12th 04, 02:52 AM
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You can change the read-only attribute on all the files after the copy is completed.
Open the folder on the hard drive where all the files have been copied. Press
Ctrl+A to select all the files, then right-click on one of the files, and choose
Properties on the menu that appears. In the Attributes section of the property
sheet, uncheck the box for Read-only, and click OK.

You could also use this neat little freeware to do it:
Attrib-R
http://www.geocities.com/edgemeal_software/Attrib-R.htm
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"Peabody" wrote in message
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When I copy files from a CD to my hard drive, the read-only
attribute is set on all the files, presumably because the CD is a
read-only medium. I just wondered if there's any easy way to reset
that flag in the process of copying.

Also, while it may be OT here, would the answer be any different in
XP?



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Old November 13th 04, 03:01 AM
glee
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I don't know why it takes so long to see the properties of a large file....I see the
same behaviour here, and yes, it is aggravating. :-)
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"Peabody" wrote in message
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glee says...

You can change the read-only attribute on all the files
after the copy is completed. Open the folder on the hard
drive where all the files have been copied. Press Ctrl+A
to select all the files, then right-click on one of the
files, and choose Properties on the menu that appears.
In the Attributes section of the property sheet, uncheck
the box for Read-only, and click OK.


Ok, thanks. I found that when I tried to change attributes
one file at a time, Windows appeared to be reading through
the entire file before bringing up the Properties box (why
does it do that?), which takes a while on a large mpeg file.
But I tried it your way, it appears to work fine, without
reading through each file, so long as I do more than one
file at a time.

You could also use this neat little freeware to do it:
Attrib-R
http://www.geocities.com/edgemeal_software/Attrib-R.htm


Thanks for your help.



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Old November 14th 04, 06:09 AM
Hugh Candlin
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glee wrote in message ...
I don't know why it takes so long to see the properties of a large file....I see the
same behaviour here, and yes, it is aggravating. :-)
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I just tried it on 2 files, one 86 MB, the other 110 MB.

The response was instantaneous. No delay at all.....

Did you try it on different file types, or just MPEG files?

I don't have an MPEG file on my computer, so I couldn't try that file type



"Peabody" wrote in message
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glee says...

You can change the read-only attribute on all the files
after the copy is completed. Open the folder on the hard
drive where all the files have been copied. Press Ctrl+A
to select all the files, then right-click on one of the
files, and choose Properties on the menu that appears.
In the Attributes section of the property sheet, uncheck
the box for Read-only, and click OK.


Ok, thanks. I found that when I tried to change attributes
one file at a time, Windows appeared to be reading through
the entire file before bringing up the Properties box (why
does it do that?), which takes a while on a large mpeg file.
But I tried it your way, it appears to work fine, without
reading through each file, so long as I do more than one
file at a time.

You could also use this neat little freeware to do it:
Attrib-R
http://www.geocities.com/edgemeal_software/Attrib-R.htm


Thanks for your help.





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Old November 14th 04, 07:51 AM
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Hugh Candlin wrote:

glee wrote:

I don't know why it takes so long to see the properties of a large file....I see the
same behaviour here, and yes, it is aggravating. :-)



I just tried it on 2 files, one 86 MB, the other 110 MB.

The response was instantaneous. No delay at all.....

Did you try it on different file types, or just MPEG files?

I don't have an MPEG file on my computer, so I couldn't try that file type


It does differ depending on file-type.

For me big .avi's take a long time.

Interestingly the .mpg propertypage come up instantaneously,
while .mpeg takes a long time.

Looking in the registry under HKCR, .mpg and .mpeg are almost
identical. And the next level, what (Default) points to,
(BSPlayerFile.MPG & BSPlayerFile.MPEG) are again almost identical
so the explanation lies somewhere deeper then this cursory look.

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Old November 15th 04, 05:19 AM
... et al.
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.... et al. wrote:

Hugh Candlin wrote:

glee wrote:

I don't know why it takes so long to see the properties of a large
file....I see the
same behaviour here, and yes, it is aggravating. :-)




I just tried it on 2 files, one 86 MB, the other 110 MB.

The response was instantaneous. No delay at all.....

Did you try it on different file types, or just MPEG files?

I don't have an MPEG file on my computer, so I couldn't try that file
type


It does differ depending on file-type.

For me big .avi's take a long time.

Interestingly the .mpg propertypage come up instantaneously, while .mpeg
takes a long time.

Looking in the registry under HKCR, .mpg and .mpeg are almost identical.
And the next level, what (Default) points to, (BSPlayerFile.MPG &
BSPlayerFile.MPEG) are again almost identical so the explanation lies
somewhere deeper then this cursory look.


Hugh, you may not need to have a proper MPEG-encoded file to test
this. Just temporarily rename the fileextension of a big file.

But!

I had noted this before and thought it had to do with how certain
filetypes were registered as 'video' in the registry and somehow
got treated differently. But i seldom call up the property-page
of data-files so i hadn't bothered much about the underlying
explanation.
But now i made copies of a big (141 MB) file in a folder and gave
them different name-extensions {mpg,mpeg,avi,txt,bin,rwq} and
tested. Doing one file after another, rebooting before a
particular file, Closing&Reopen the folder before testing a file
.... and now i just can't get a handle on the behaviour ..
sometimes the page comes up quick sometimes it takes ca 7
seconds... (and there is no differences between .mpg & .mpeg files).

Conclusion: I'm confused :-(

(The .rwq was just a random extension not in the registry)

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